A Holocaust Reader

Preface Introduction 1. EARLY REFLECTIONS Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz Jean Améry: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew Theodor W. Adorno: Meditations on Metaphysics Hannah Arendt: The Concentration Camps Martin Buber: The Dialogue between Heaven and Earth Elie Wiesel: A Plea for the Dead 2. CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES Richard Rubenstein: The Making of a Rabbi Richard Rubenstein: Symposium on Jewish Belief Eliezer Berkovits: Faith after the Holocaust Irving Greenberg: Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust Emil L. Fackenheim: Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment Emil L. Fackenheim: Holocaust Emil L. Fackenheim: The Holocaust and the State of Israel: Their Relation A. Roy Eckardt: Christians and Jews: Along a Theological Frontier 3. DEVELOPMENTS: THE 1970s AND 1980s Michael Wyschogrod: Faith and the Holocaust Amos Funkenstein: Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Balance Arthur A. Cohen: Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death Camps Franklin Sherman: Speaking of God after Auschwitz Robert E. Willis: Auschwitz and the Nuturing of Conscience David Tracy: Religious Values after the Holocaust: A Catholic View Johann Baptist Metz: Christians and Jews after Auschwitz: Being a Meditation Also on the End of Bourgeois Religion Emil L. Fackenheim: The Holocaust and Philosophy Hans Jonas: The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice 4. THE HOLOCAUST AND WESTERN CULTURE: THE 1980s AND 1990s Saul Friedlander: The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness Omer Bartov: Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History, and Truth Kenneth Seeskin: What Philosophy Can and Cannot Say about Evil Kenneth Seeskin: Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma Michael André Bernstein: Narrating the Shoah Berel Lang: The Representation of Evil: Ethical Content as Literary Form Andreas Huyssen: Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age Bibliography Index